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If anyone has any experience I would appreciate some info about ICBC and modded cars. I have the replacement insurance from ICBC and all my original receipts (bike racks, sway bars, SPT springs, wheels, Alpine H/U) - how good is ICBC at covering the cost of modifications/aftermarket accessories?

Damn, that sucks man. I had the same thing happen back in my civic days. As long as you have the original receipts, ICBC shouldn't give you too much trouble. They paid me for everything i had receipts for. I couldn't find the receipt for my deck, so they just gave me a flat rate of $100 or something like that.

Depends on the adjustor.
Technically, from a valuation point of view, your mods are worth less than the OEM parts your replaced! I haven't seen the adjustors give less than fair market value for the car, but often they won't give you an extra penny for mods. Though you may have spent $200 on a sway bar, the one you took out was worth more than that, in terms of replacement cost.

Just spoke to my landlord - our building has a locked box outside that contains a key for emergency services, and apparently, only emergency services has access to that box (not even the landlord). Currently, there is a hole in the wall where the box used to be. That explains how they got in.

There is no stock immobilizer on the 2005 WRX but I did buy a dealer installed aftermarket immobilizer. The immobilizer is disarmed using the remote, but you can also disarm the system using a command sequence (i.e. depress brake pedal, clutch, then flash lights, etc.) Would not be impossible for professional thieves to find the sequence.

There is a camera in our parking garage, but the landlord says that the image to too fuzzy to make anything out... right, that's useful.

I feel your pain, my car just got broken into last week in my underground parking as well but I ran down as soon as my pager alarm started going off and the thieves only had time to make off with some stuff I had in the back seat. Seriously, this city really is the pits for car theft

I feel your pain, my car just got broken into last week in my underground parking as well but I ran down as soon as my pager alarm started going off and the thieves only had time to make off with some stuff I had in the back seat. Seriously, this city really is the pits for car theft

dude I think you might hold a record in the VIC for the number of break-ins...

Don't really know what to say besides to maybe stop leaving stuff in the open

ouch -- so sorry to hear!
KDV -- I think I'm the one who sold you the gold superlegs about a year ago.
I gave you a copy of the receipts -- but let me know if you need the originals or any more info when dealing with ICBC.